On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 08:46:18AM -0500, Noam Izenberg wrote: > Most of the Zelazny I have read was over half my life ago . . . > . . . Here's the real > quandry - do I go back and re-read the things I loved 20 years ago, or > do I forge ahead into new (or simply new to me) territory? Here's where > being a slow reader does _not_ pay off. IMHO reading Zelazny you have not previously read will be more enjoyable than re-reading the Amber books, even if you've largely forgotten the content of those Amber volumes. IMHO his other work is mostly better than any of the last 8 Amber books. Sales figures indicate that Amber is more *popular*, but in this I freely admit to having better taste than the average mass-market fantasy reader. :-) -- "I try not to sound old and cynical, but it's hard to do that when you're old and cynical." -me